To ? 6 January [1873 or 1874]
Summary
"If you will apply to any bookseller whatever you will procure a copy.–– Publisher Murray."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 6 Jan [1873-4] |
Classmark: | John Wilson (dealer) (no date) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-7429A |
To ? 2 January [1873 or 1874]
Summary
CD appreciates the correspondent’s suggestion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 2 Jan [1873-4] |
Classmark: | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz (Nachl. 141 (Slg. Adam) 33, Darwin, Charles) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8139F |
From ? [1873?]
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 159: 138 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8706 |
From ? [1873–4?]
Summary
Cancelled: enclosure to S 9290.
Author: | Unidentified |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [1873–4?] |
Classmark: | DAR 69: 11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8714 |
To ? 9 January 1873
Summary
Has pleasure in signing the [missing] enclosure, with every word of which he fully agrees.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 9 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Private collection |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8728F |
To the Spectator 11 January 1873
Summary
Discusses two factors possibly causing modification of body or mind of an organism; habit and direct action of external conditions on the one hand, and selection, natural or artificial, on the other; considers their relative importance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Spectator |
Date: | 11 Jan 1873 |
Classmark: | Spectator, 18 January 1873, p. 76. |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8731 |
To Nature [before 13 February 1873]
Summary
Sends a letter from William Huggins about a case of inherited fright in three generations of mastiffs. Discusses the different origins of instincts and their inheritance.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 13 Feb 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 13 February 1873, pp. 281–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8765 |
To Nature [before 13 March 1873]
Summary
Recounts instances suggesting that animals have a sense of direction.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 13 Mar 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 13 March 1873, p. 360 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8809 |
To Nature [before 3 April 1873]
Summary
Comments on article ["Perception and instinct in lower animals", Nature 7 (1871): 377–8].
Explains his contention that "many of the most wonderful instincts have been acquired, independently of habit, through the preservation of useful variations of pre-existing instincts". Cites examples: sterile workers of several species of social insects have acquired different instincts; movements of tumbler pigeons. Speculates that "many instincts have originated from modification or variations in the brain".
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 3 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 3 April 1873, pp. 417–18 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8838 |
To Nature [before 3 April 1873]
Summary
"The following fact with respect to the habits of ants, which I believe to be quite new, has been sent to me by a distinguished geologist, Mr J. D. Hague [see 8788]; and it appears well worth publishing."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 3 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 10 April 1873, pp. 443–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8853 |
To ? 28 April 1873
Summary
"I was born in the town of Shrewsbury Feb. 12, 1809."
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | Swann Auction Galleries (dealers) (26 April 1984) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8888A |
To ? 4 May [1873]
Summary
Explains that his publisher has erred in announcing his book [Cross and self-fertilisation] prematurely. [See 8890 and 8897.]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 4 May [1873] |
Classmark: | Remember When Auctions (dealers) (Catalogue 41, 16 March 1997) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8897A |
To ? 18 July [1873?]
Summary
Comments on ability of recipient to move his scalp.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 18 July [1873?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (Mss.B.D25.430) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8982 |
To Nature [before 24 July 1873]
Summary
Sends a letter from J. D. Hague confirming his earlier observation [see 8788] of frightened behaviour of ants when they come upon dead ants. CD had asked for confirmation because J. T. Moggridge had suggested that the ants’ behaviour was alarm at the scent of the observer’s fingers.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | [before 24 July 1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 24 July 1873, p. 244 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8985 |
To ? [June–September 1873?]
Summary
Printed memorandum giving reasons why there should be subsidy on a large scale of scientific research unencumbered with teaching.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [June–Sept 1873?] |
Classmark: | American Philosophical Society (T. H. Huxley papers Mss.B.H981) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9040G |
To Nature 20 September [1873]
Summary
CD, in commenting on Wyville Thomson’s "Notes from the Challenger" [Nature 8 (1873): 347–9], recapitulates his work on rudimentary male cirripedes [Living Cirripedia], especially the complementary males attached to hermaphrodites. Offers an explanation, on evolutionary grounds, of their function and size.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Nature |
Date: | 20 Sept [1873] |
Classmark: | Nature, 25 September 1873, pp. 431–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9061 |
To Frederick Allen’s agent [October 1873]
Summary
Has heard that Mr Allen wishes to let his house and thinks it probable that it would suit his son [Francis]. Asks whether he may have refusal of it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | [Oct 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 96: 157–8 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9079 |
To ? 28 November [1873]
Summary
Will not require assistance of correspondent’s cousin in correcting his MS [2d ed. of Descent]. His son [George] will undertake it.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Unidentified |
Date: | 28 Nov [1873] |
Classmark: | Cleveland Health Sciences Library (Robert M. Stecher collection) |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-9163 |
From Francis Darwin [15–18 September 1873]
Summary
FD has asked J. B. Sanderson about Mucin.
Author: | Francis Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15–18 Sept 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 274.1: 5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10156F |
To C. J. Plumptre 19 August [1873?]
Summary
Agrees François Delsarte’s view [that the eyes do not show emotion, only indicate the object of it], is probably wrong.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Charles John Plumptre |
Date: | 19 Aug [1873?] |
Classmark: | Plumptre 1876, pp. 224–5 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-10581F |
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